Where I worked one time, to make sure the clients machines were on at
night, we asked the workers to REBOOT, not SHUTDOWN their machine when
they leave.
That way the M$ machines got fresh reboots regularly (in a kind manner)
and the nightly network tasks could do their thing (virus scans, update
pushed software, and backups if needed).
If worrying about power, let the machines go to 'sleep', but make sure
that wakeup on lan is on and working.
Just a suggestion.
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 18:36 +0200, Erik van Linstee wrote:
> Craig Barratt schreef:
> > This means BackupPC_nightly isn't running (or running completely).
> >
> > Look at the top of the last few LOG files to see if it running,
> > or whether it gives an error.
> >
> If BackupPC_nightly needs to run, then no wonder. This machine is never
> on at night :-)
> I'll try and see what happens.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
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Craig Barratt schreef:
> This means BackupPC_nightly isn't running (or running completely).
>
> Look at the top of the last few LOG files to see if it running,
> or whether it gives an error.
>
If BackupPC_nightly needs to run, then no wonder. This machine is never
on at night :-)
I'll try and see what happens.
Thanks,
Erik

Hello,
I'm still installing BackupPC on my Fedora Core 6 and it's working via =
samba (Windows Clients).
Ok, now I would like to configure it with Rsync and SSH in order to have a =
system which is more secured.
I would like to know if somebody did it successfully and if it is easy or =
no.
I searched on the web and there are a lot af tutorials but in majority =
between Linux Clients/Server and not between a Linux Server and Windows =
Client.
On my Win Clients :
----------------------------
- I downloaded "cygwin-rsyncd-2.6.8_0.zip"
- I configured : rsyncd.conf rsyncd.secrets
- I started : rsync.exe
On my Linux Server :
------------------------------
- I run the command "yum install perl perl-Compress-Zlib perl-Archive-Zip =
perl-File-RsyncP httpd mod_perl samba-client" during the installation of =
the BackupPC =
- I created the keys with commands :
$ su backuppc -
# ssh-keygen -t rsa
And I tested the connection between my client and my server and it doesn't =
work.
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D
Command : rsync -avz -e ssh =
___BACKUPUSER___@...:/___FOLDER___ ___DESTFOLDER
Result : building file List ... rsync: link_stat
"/root/___BACKUPUSER___@...:/___FOLDER___" failed: No such =
file or directory (2)
done
sent 29 bytes received 20 bytes 98.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files not be transferred (code23) at main.c(892) =
[sender=3D2.6.8]
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D
I would like you to precise that I'm using a Domain Backup Operator user =
which is created on the AD.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Romain
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This is how I moved backuppc home directory on my ubuntu 2.x system, as
root:
/etc/init.d/backuppc stop
mkdir /backup/backuppc
chown backuppc.backuppc /backup/backuppc
cd /var/lib/backuppc;tar cf - . | (cd /opt/backuppc;tar xvf - )
cd ..
mv /var/lib/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc.save
ln -s /var/lib/backuppc /backup/backuppc
/etc/init.d/backuppc start
/backup is on a large additional drive/array.
then later after remove /var/lib/backuppc.save once you like what you
see.
Yes, it is a little over simplified, but that is the basics of what I
did to move the backuppc home directory. But this worked for me.
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 11:28 +0200, Renke Brausse wrote:
> Hello Varuna,
>
> as I know the path is hard coded while compiling - I
> bind-mounted /var/lib/backuppc to the real storage path to solve this
> issue.
>
> Renke
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 04.10.2007, 14:54 +0530 schrieb Varuna Nohar:
> > hi all
> >
> > i want to know that the path to store the backup is
> > var/lib/backuppc/pc
> >
> > but i wanted to store in my home . It is taking it defalut .Now i want
> > to know from where i should change
> >
> > to be store in the desired location.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Varuna Nohar
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hi all
i want to know that the path to store the backup is var/lib/backuppc/pc
but i wanted to store in my home . It is taking it defalut .Now i want to
know from where i should change
to be store in the desired location.
Regards
Varuna Nohar

On Friday 28 September 2007 01:34:07 Doug Lytle wrote:
> Josh Marshall wrote:
> > I use xfs on all my installations and feel that's the best mix of
> > performance and reliability. I use the standard mkfs.xfs but I've read
>
> Just a note on this,
>
> I've recently purchased two 500GB drives that I wanted to add to my XFS
> LVM. It turns out that you can't resize an XFS partition. I ended up
> having to recreate the LVM. I moved the data over to 1 of the drives,
> recreated the LVM using reiserfs, copied the data over to the new LVM.
> Then I added the 2nd drive and resized the partition.
xfsprogs package contains an xfs_growfs command. It allows you to grow XFS
filesystem on-line.
Best regards,
Janne Pikkarainen

Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
<some very nice text to patch my FAQ with>
Well,
I worked out Example 2 in my FAQ proposition, as that method went very
well. It can even be used for Example 1 I think now :-) So maybe I just
have to remove the Example 1 method ...
Read it please, thank you.
Anyway, a way to import a backup that uses the SMB transfer protocol in
BackupPC is still to be discovered. I hope to get it today :-)
Meanwhile, my updated FAQ in attachement.
Regards,
--
Toni Van Remortel
toni.van.remortel@...

Thanks a lot for this information Craig.
I found the solution what I searched since 2 minutes.
I didn't exclude the files but I just configured the =
$Conf{BackupFilesOnly} and it's good for me.
Thank you very much.
Have a nice day.
Regards,
Romain
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Including .excluding directories
Romain writes:
> Ok, I did successfully a full backup in specifying the 2 directories =
what I wanted to save.
> But, now, I would to save 2 specifics directories ('e$\data' and =
'e$\notes\data') and in one ('e$\notes\data') I would like to filter
> the files or the type of file what I want to save. For information, I'm =
using Samba.
Unfortunately with smbclient you can't specify both $Conf{BackupFilesOnly}
and $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}. With rsync you can specify both.
Craig
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Toni writes:
> Found it. Using " " around parameters, is parsed by the shell when
> testing, but is not parsed when used in eg DumpPreShareCmd.
>
> So never use any quotes in BackupPC *Cmd lines!
That's right - you found that BackupPC doesn't use a shell
to run the *Cmd lines. It splits the arguments and calls
execvp directly.
Craig

Romain writes:
> Ok, I did successfully a full backup in specifying the 2 directories what I wanted to save.
> But, now, I would to save 2 specifics directories ('e$\data' and 'e$\notes\data') and in one ('e$\notes\data') I would like to filter
> the files or the type of file what I want to save. For information, I'm using Samba.
Unfortunately with smbclient you can't specify both $Conf{BackupFilesOnly}
and $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}. With rsync you can specify both.
Craig